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ŞEYDA ODABAŞI

ŞEYDA ODABAŞI

She was born in 1963. She was graduated from Faculty of Educational Sciences, Ankara University. She has MS Degree in Educational Sciences at Hacettepe University and PhD Degree in Educational Sciences at Middle East Technical University. She has also delivered lectures and seminars at Gazi University, Başkent University and Atılım University.

She worked for Ministry of Education, Ministry of Culture and Tourism. In addition, she actively took part in Training of Trainers Project of UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) and IBRD (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) as a delegate of Ministry and she worked for WHO (World Health Organization) Road Safety Project .

She contributed a lot to and played a key role in the studies aiming to develop and implementation of tourism training programs, multiplying and boosting tourist productions, tourist attractions and thematic routes, inventory and publication studies of folk culture in Turkey, inclusion of many elements of Turkish Folk Culture (as Turkish Shadow Theatre: Karagöz, Aşıklık (Minstrelsy) Tradition, Traditional Sohbet Meetings, Semah, Alevi-Bektaşi Ritual) on the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, UNESCO as well as contributing much to the studies on identifying Living Human Treasures and marketing of traditional handcrafts.

She participated in the TEDxAnkaraCitadel –Curriculum Vitae event, first held in 2013, as a member of core staff.